Article 85 — Types of Serious Disciplinary

Violations The following and similar misconducts provided by the Advocates’ Code of Conduct, when committed by an advocate or a law firm, shall be considered as violation of serious disciplinary rules: 1/ Employ and engage as a law clerk or advocate’s assistant, persons mentioned under Article 18 Sub-Article (3) of this Proclamation; 2/ Failure to declare and get registered advocate’s assistant and support staff, employed under him/it, with the licensing body; 3/ Prolonging the disposal time of court cases by repeatedly applying, without good cause, for change of adjournments; 4/ Rendering advocacy service without having an office; 5/ Failure to take properly, for reasons other than those allowed by law, the mandatory continuing professional legal training; 6/ Failure to keep the confidentiality of client’s information; 7/ Refusal to provide pro bono advocacy service when a case is assigned to him/it by the concerned body; 8/ Doing advocacy service with the medium of a intermediary or serving as a intermediary to other advocates; 9/ Failure to make the contract of advocacy service with a client in writing, except provided by Article 23 Sub-Article (1) of this Proclamation; 10/ Terminating the contract of advocacy service without good cause or demanding ,against the will of the client, additional service fee other than what is agreed upon on the contract of advocacy service; 11/ Providing advocacy service without securing insurance policy or renewing same within the period provided under Article 33 of this Proclamation; 12/ Try to obtain decisions inappropraitly from the courts or other decision making organs who entertain cases; 13/ Handling, with the knowledge, a case which may potentially cause, or has, conflict of interest; 14/ Providing advocacy service for the class which he/it is not licensed for; 15/ Failure to, properly, produce to the court the evidences of his client or performing under capacity with the view to make his client’s case ineffective; 16/ Transfer his/its license to the use of third parties so that third parties can make use of it in any way; 17/ Deliberately make his/its pro bono client lose his case or distort or render the case ineffective due to negligence; 18/ Committing misconducts in relation to handling of his/its clients trust account in violation of obligations specified under Articles 35 and 36 Sub-Articles (1), (4) and (5) of this Proclamation; 19/ Rendering his client’s case ineffective due to unacceptable and inappropriate relationship with the opponent’s advocate or concealing evidence; 20/ Handling cases which have clearly no cause of action and receiving fee for such inappropriate service; 21/ Obtaining advocacy license fraudulently or using a forged evidence; 22/ In relation to advocacy service, being found guilty and punished by the court for breach of trust, fraud, misrepresentation, forgery, or making use of such documents or for the act of theft and similar misconduct; 23/ In relation to advocacy service, produce forged evidence or cause to be produced; prepare false witnesses and get them falsely testify; advise the accused or defendant not to appear before the court or cause his disappearance or advising him to do so; conceal or destroy an evidence with a view to denying the opposing party the opportunity to make use of it and distortion of justice; and found guity and convicted with offences related to similar displinary violation; 24/ Rendering advocacy service, knowingly, with a license which is not renewed, suspended or revoked.